Lead Full-Stack Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 335 471
Rank change year-on-year +40 +136 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 7 14 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.091% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.098% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £325 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £594 £594 £575
90th Percentile £658 £629 -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,282 14,329 24,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 93.54% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,349 9,576 17,328
10th Percentile £338 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £769 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 577 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £18.22
25th Percentile £18.10 £23.34 £25.95
Median hourly rate £35.25 £44.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% -20.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Full-Stack Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Full-Stack Developer.

Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Docker
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) Node.js
4 3 (42.86%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
4 3 (42.86%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Spring
4 3 (42.86%) Jest
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 2 (28.57%) CSS
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) React Native
5 2 (28.57%) Redux
5 2 (28.57%) React
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (14.29%) .NET

Lead Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Jest
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) React Native
2 2 (28.57%) Redux
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) Django
3 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
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